[mova] [Fwd: Re: [SEELANGS] Translation help]

[Max Pyziur]

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Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Translation help
From:    "Timothy D. Sergay" <tsergay at COLUMBUS.RR.COM>
Date:    Wed, July 13, 2005 9:24 pm
To:      SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
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Dear Natalia,

    For "parasha," the English edition of Jacques Rossi's GULAG HANDBOOK
(Paragon House, 1989) has simply "latrine bucket" (and notes that it can 
also refer to rumors); for "shmon," just "search" and terms based on 
"search" (searcher, search facility and so on). Where "shmon" and related 
forms refer to a rough police search of a premises, rather than someone's 
person, I like the colloquial "toss": "The cops tossed the apartment, 
looking for drugs." Some "hunch and google" work on the Internet indicates
 that "shit bucket" is the equivalent of "parasha" for English-speaking 
prisoners; the duty of cleaning them is "slopping out" ("slop out the shit
 bucket"). I don't understand the form "shmonaie."

    Yours,

    Tim

 Although I know the meaning of *parasha* and *shmon* / serzhant
> *shmonaie*, I am not
> quite sure how to English them.
>

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